Observations on the Sermons of Elias Hicks: In Several Letters to Him; With Some Introductory Remarks, Addressed to the Junior Members of the Society of Friends.Waln, Robert
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Observations on the Sermons of Elias Hicks: In Several Letters to Him; With Some Introductory Remarks, Addressed to the Junior Members of the Society of Friends.
Waln, Robert
Hicks, Elias, 1748-1830; Society of Friends -- Hicksite controversy
can be to them, and tell you, "that each individual requires a law
peculiar to himself; and that the law of the Spirit of Life in one, is
not the law of the Spirit of Life in another"[26]--and if, (adopting
this opinion,) you should declare to them that the law of the Spirit of
Life is different in each individual, some of your audience may assert,
"that the divine law which is written by the finger of God upon the
tablet of our hearts, is the same to every individual"[27]--and if
fatigued with these objections, you should express your surprise at
their number, inconsistency and futility, you will be told that they are
all furnished by yourself.
Footnote 21:
Sermons, page 313.
Footnote 22:
Sermons, page 248.
Footnote 23:
Sermons, page 275.
Footnote 24:
Page 52.
Footnote 25:
Sermons, page 51.
Footnote 26:
Sermons, page 51.
Footnote 27:
Sermons in New York, page 124.
If, then, the great founder of the sect is yet so indistinct in his
vision, what must be the situation of those who are less advanced in the
religious experience of your new school? If he is so frequently involved
in contradictions, what must be the accumulated mass when collected
together?
Should your project be realised, and such a congregation assembled,
those who, like yourself, search the Scriptures for types and figures,
may, with much less violation of probability than occurs in your
discourses, consider the meeting as a consummation of that confusion of
tongues typified in the building of the Tower of Babel.
LETTER VI.
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